Roughing the Punter http://www.roughingthepunter.com Message boards devoted to sports betting and other forms of advantage gambling. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:32:47 GMT vBulletin 60 http://roughingthepunter.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Roughing the Punter http://www.roughingthepunter.com Unanswerable Prayers.... http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1881&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:15:47 GMT Not so much gambling related. Well, maybe if you are in a death pool. Unanswerable Prayers... Not so much gambling related. Well, maybe if you are in a death pool.

Unanswerable Prayers ]]> General Forum squeaky fromme http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1881 The best of 2+2 http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1880&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:36 GMT ---Quote (Originally by GroovinMahoovinPartDeux)--- You should start a thread here for all the stupid shit you find on that board. I find that...
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Originally Posted by GroovinMahoovinPartDeux (Post 19000)
You should start a thread here for all the stupid shit you find on that board. I find that stuff hilarious, but it's sort of tough to navigate that board.
Sounds good, we'll go with it. I'll kick it off with my favourite thread ever which I already posted about in the FIBA thread.

As you mentioned, 2+2 is tough to navigate through with a depressing fraction of entertaining content but the sheer volume of traffic is enough to get some great nuggets. Anyone who comes across anything good feel free to post it here. ]]> General Forum PerpetualCzech http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1880 Poster To Tout Not So Uncommon Over At SFW.. http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1879&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:34:01 GMT They must have the highest per capita poster to tout ratio
on the net. I've counted 6 within the last 2 years (incl holdovers from
BC) with the latest installment (just found out) being 'blogguy'.

Boy they must be pretty good over there.... ]]> General Forum Heimie http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1879 AL Cy Young http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1878&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:23 GMT Haven't been following baseball much at all this year, but his has been brought to my attention by my square (read: Mariner fan) friends.

I could be wrong (my main weakness here is not adjusting for park effects), but taking a cursory look at all the traditional and semi-traditional numbers, other than W/L record, Felix seems like the obvious choice for Cy Young. Of course he is 11-10 and playing for one of the worst teams in baseball. Part of me wants to see him lose all his remaining games 1-0 with lots of strike outs just to see what would happen.

Any opinions on who will win the award? I'm guessing CC, aka Bob Welch, or maybe David Price. Interestingly Jered Weaver might be the second most deserving after Felix, but of course he has the same problem with an 11-11 W/L record. ]]> General Forum The Chaperone http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1878 <![CDATA[Don't Copy and Paste Articles From the Las Vegas Review Journal Here]]> http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1876&goto=newpost Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:43:11 GMT In between the superSharp advice that may occur here from season to season, and fully aware of the 24-hr vigil dedicated to monitoring EOG, I thought... In between the superSharp advice that may occur here from season to season, and fully aware of the 24-hr vigil dedicated to monitoring EOG, I thought I better let you know of something that really is bizarre, but lame-brained serious. I know there could be nothing of value learned from a local newspaper with this group, but just in case there is, and you decide to share it at RTP...read on..

From EOG..


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Don't Copy and Paste Articles From the Las Vegas Review Journal Here


Evidently, times are tough in the newspaper bidness. They need revenue.

This sounds like a joke but it isn't. The LVRJ has hired a firm, Righthaven LLC, to file suit against anyone who copies and pastes articles from the newspaper onto another site on the grounds of "copyright infringement."

This sounds like a joke but it isn't. The latest suit to make the news is against the Sharron Angle campaign. This leads you to be believe it's just some sort of dirty trick against the paper's political enemies. But goofball innocent bloggers, totally oblivious to these suits, are being sued. Just google the key words in this post.

Obviously, the Las Vegas newspaper puts out a lot of info that may be of interest here. Don't copy it and post it here..

This sounds like a joke but it isn't. But it's one hell of a bad PR move.

Wish I could tell you it's stupid, but they will Napster you. ]]> General Forum Jeff Jones http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1876 U.S. Open Tennis Fighter is a Bettor http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1875&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:24:13 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY6Qb...has_verified=1

You can clearly hear the young man say "I got a lot of money on this game" around :40. ]]> General Forum kimlee http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1875 <![CDATA[Forget Rich Rodriguez' record, he deserves to be fired...]]> http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1874&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:54:50 GMT ...for having the most boring, cliche ridden Twitter account: http://twitter.com/UM_CoachRod ...for having the most boring, cliche ridden Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/UM_CoachRod ]]> General Forum Jon in Oakland http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1874 crazy google ad linked from this site http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1873&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:39:50 GMT seriously what kind key phrase indexing does rtp employ here? Image: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7821/bet01sep052035.jpg seriously what kind key phrase indexing does rtp employ here?

]]> General Forum trixtrix http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1873 sundown 2010 ncaaf http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1872&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:59:48 GMT utah 21.5 -105 2u (2k limit open) add: utah -21.5 -110 1u utah 21.5 -105 2u (2k limit open)

add: utah -21.5 -110 1u ]]> No Arguments-A Forum for Picks sundown http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1872 Sports Illustrated NFL Division Previews. A Feel Good Story! http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1871&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:30:47 GMT Sports Illustrated recently wrapped up their series of NFL Division Previews... Sports Illustrated recently wrapped up their series of NFL Division Previews.

You probably came away feeling pretty good about your team's chances. That may have been because their predicted records have the League as a whole a combined 38 GAMES OVER .500!!

I realize that these previews were put together by a team of writers, but still. I find it hard to believe that each individual author would have made enough adjustments if he had penned the entire thing himself for the math to work.

Do they not realize that the standings are zero sum game? Doesn't anyone check this stuff? ]]> General Forum Jon in Oakland http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1871 Student Debt Destroys Budding Relationship http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1870&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:33:58 GMT Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman’s fiancé found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had... Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman’s fiancé found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had a particularly strong reaction: he broke off the engagement within three days.
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Ms. Eastman said she had told him early on in their relationship that she had over $100,000 of debt. ... But as the couple got closer to their wedding day, she took out all the paperwork and it became clear that her total debt was actually about $170,000. “He accused me of lying,” said Ms. Eastman, 31, a San Francisco X-ray technician and part-time photographer who had run up much of the balance studying for a bachelor’s degree in photography. “But if I was lying, I was lying to myself, not to him. I didn’t really want to know the full amount.”
How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship

The fiance dodged a bullet. You don't want to entangle yourself with runaway debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. They can still live together without putting his income and assets in jeopardy.

There is also the honesty and judgement issue. If she lied to herself then she will lie to him too. Maybe she forgets her birth control, doesn't pay traffic tickets, and forgot to sign her divorce papers. ]]> General Forum kimlee http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1870 NFL Teasers by weeks http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1869&goto=newpost Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:50:28 GMT I posted this here and over there, too.
When breaking the NFL season down into quartiles I don't think that the sample sizes are large enough to draw significant conclusions.

[IMG][url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/30485932@N08/4958740117/] ]]> The Office mikevegas http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1869 NCAA football database question http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1868&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:27:35 GMT To anyone that might have a college football database, I'm curious -- At halftime, if one team has 3 points or less, and the other team has 21 points or more, what % of the time does the 2h go under the total?

Thanks for any help. ]]> General Forum ahearnb http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1868 sundown ncaaf halftime http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1867&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:17:38 GMT n mex +14.5 +100 3u n mex +14.5 +100 3u ]]> No Arguments-A Forum for Picks sundown http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1867 <![CDATA["Minorities Bring Domestic Violence to US Open"]]> http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1866&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:04:19 GMT http://christwire.org/2010/09/minori...ce-to-us-open/

If you don't want to click on link, go to christwire.org for the straight poop. ]]> General Forum Samo http://www.roughingthepunter.com/showthread.php?t=1866